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Trachymene ornata (Endl.) Druce
Family Araliaceae
Common name: Sponge-fruit

Trachymene ornata (Endl.) Druce APNI*

Description: Annual herb, to 15 cm high; stems sparsely hairy.

Leaves deeply 3-lobed to dissected, lamina ovate in outline, 1–3 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide; segments elliptic to obovate, 1–5 mm wide, sparsely hairy; petiole 6–30 mm long.

Umbels 4–18 mm diam., 3–7 flowered; peduncle 1.5–4.5 cm long, sparsely hairy; bracts 5–6, 2–4 mm long. Flowers bisexual. Petals 0.9–1.1 mm long, white or blue. Ovary 2-locular, felted.

Fruit broad ovate, 3.5–5.7 mm long (including indumentum), white or tinged purple; both mericarps maturing. Mericarps 2.2–2.8 mm wide (including indumentum); densely woolly. Carpophores entire, 1.7–2.7 mm long.


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Flowering: Flowers July–October

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in rocky situations or on shallow soils often in drainage tracts, moss swards or rock crevices; west from Rankin Springs and Cobar.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: W.A. S.A.
AVH map***

Formerly in Apiaceae.

Text by J.M. Hart
Taxon concept: J.M. Hart, 2002


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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